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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting
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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · Aug 5
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Early Magic Agents Guide; YA Contemporary Fantasy; When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—thought it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic. Images: two teen witches and one teen boy; comp titles: Wild is the Witch, A Wicked Magic, Spells for Lost Things, Practical Magic
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🧹EARLY MAGIC 🧹 - Querying now!

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Two witches. A portal. And lots of homework. Also a hot vet. And a perfect pair of Prada boots.
Image: Punk girl with heart-shaped glasses and a tattoo (Lucky) on her shoulder; text: Rowan bit back a suggestion that the store join the twenty-first century and get a computerized system. “Good for you.” Rowan glanced at her phone. She still had time to hit the spa before meeting The Mini Coven. Kinzey giggled. “You’re spicy. I like you, Rowan.” She held up a finger. “Hold on one moment.” She took the top sheet off a Dee’s Almanac pad of paper and scribbled on it for a few moments, humming as she worked. “My special enchantment for that lamen.” Use a spell off this total wackadoo? Sure.
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
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#WIP #NA #R #HS
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Mika and Dominik weren't looking for a connection.
It's Prague. The early 90s. Nothing is permanent. There are no rules.
They're each trying so hard to lose themself - can they find each other?
image: old flyer for a pub, Zelzne Dvere; text: Jasmina lifts a hand to one of the long strands of hair framing Mika’s face. “Please, do something…more fashionable with this hair.” Mika swallows her laugh. This is how Jasmina talks to everyone. It’s not clear if it’s a lost-in-translation thing–some Serbian language style that comes out as blunt and rude in English–or if Jasmina just doesn’t give a fuck. “Yeah, sure.” She doesn’t bother explaining that she doesn’t have a shower. As eager as she is to get home and check the mail, she’s going to stop by Radka’s on the way to wash her hair before Anthony comes over. Jasmina heads down to the club, no doubt to find her next victim.  Mika heads out to the tram stop. It’s rush hour, and Prague is chaotic, but it’s the beginning of the weekend, and tonight will be an adventure.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Frenemies take on high school, witchcraft, and daemons–both personal and magical.

Speaking of daemons...

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Normally Grandmother, as High Priestess, would receive a new witch, but because she was the one presenting Rowan, the high duty fell to the next most senior. It had to be Esme, though it was hard to tell with the veil obscuring her face. Rowan matched her grandmother’s ramrod-straight posture as they stood side by side in front of probably-Esme. She must have stood here with Mom at some point, with high hopes. No wonder she’s so fricking rigid. Well, no chance of a repeat of that failure. “Who presents this witch?” Esme’s words rang through the night. Rowan’s insides vibrated. Finally. “I do.” Grandmother’s voice could out-command everyone. “Sisters of Ilitra Lor, I present Rowan, a new candidate for initiation, under my protection, to be named in the month of the oak moon.” “Heir of Angelica, reveal your glyph.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Pinning this again and noticing my pitch is just a fancy way of explaining that a man is lying
maggiesbooks.bsky.social maggie 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 19
#litagents are you looking for an adult version of “The Summer I Turned Pretty?” I have just the thing!#amquerying #writingcommunity #agentsguide
AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO None of This Was Real WOMEN'S FICTION WITH BOOK CLUB APPEAL Comparative Titles & Themes Adelaide: A story that will break your heart and sew it up again Every summer after: Two timelines, lake house setting Atomic hearts: 2010S nostalgia Happy place: What if your happy place stopped being happy? HOW TÒ HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT: complex family dynamics Pitch If you love someone, let them go and if they come back for your sister's wedding, then nothing can possibly go wrong. Nostalgic for their teen romance, two exes reconnect at a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart after a tragic accident. When they finally build each other's trust back, a secret reopens old wounds that fuel. the fires of the insecurities that lay dormant for ten years. Excerpt His presence made me feel like I was seventeen again and happily suffocating in my family's lake house. Back then, I was enamored by the smell of pine trees, lake water, and cigarettes in a dive bar parking lot. Summers were like a warm pitcher of beer, a crisp can of Pepsi, and tobacco-tainted kisses. Now I was twenty-eight, killing time waiting for the delayed i train after telling the lawyer we shouldn't see each other anymore and it was frigid outside.
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre’s being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she’s supposed to be today. #WIPPit #YA #F #LGBT
A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with golems. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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🌙 PREVIOUS MOONS 🌙

A young druid is determined to prove his missing father is alive. To save him, he must travel to a dying world—one his powerful mentor will stop at nothing to control.

#WIPPIT #YA #F
Images: woman blowing red smoke, dark trees against white sky, young man, red potion, ruin on a beach: Previous Moons - YA portal fantasy
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙
#WIPPIT #YA #F

A young druid is determined to prove his missing father is alive. To save him, he must travel to a dying world - one his powerful mentor will stop at nothing to control.
Images: young man looking out a window, silhouette of a woman walking away, portal, old castle
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🐈‍⬛The Mala Strana Mysteries

Book restorer Klara Vesela is the expat who never left. Just when she's settling into life as a single 50-something, a series of murders comes to her close-knit courtyard community in Prague.
#WIPPIT #A #MM #R
Images: chairs in a cafe, an old text, old keys, Prague skyline; text: Mala Strana Mysteries
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
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90s vibes
Slow burn
Historical context
Autofiction

#NA #UP
#Wippit

Mika and Dominik aren't looking for a connection.
It's Prague. The early 90s. Nothing is permanent. There are no rules.
They're each trying so hard to lose themself - can they find each other?
Images: casettes, silhouette of Charles Bridge, young man and young woman; Text: The Best Kisser in Prague
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
🇨🇿
90s vibes
Slow burn
Historical context
Autofiction

#NA #UP
#Wippit

Mika and Dominik aren't looking for a connection.
It's Prague. The early 90s. Nothing is permanent. There are no rules.
They're each trying so hard to lose themself - can they find each other?
Image of young woman holding a drink, with head on the table
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
🇨🇿
90s vibes
Slow burn romance
Historical context
Autofiction

#WIP #NA #R #HS
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#wippit
Images: cassette tapes, Prague tram, club, drinks and photos on a table; center image of couple kissing; The best kisser in prague
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙

A prequel to Early Magic
- Modern druids in Wales
- Dark Academic setting
- second-world portal
- Boss Bitch Villain

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
#F #YA #books #druids
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The newest #sci-fi and #fantasy anthology from worldstonepublishing.com/ - Winter of Sci-fi & Fantasy, volume 1 - featuring my short One Star is Ours alongside twelve other amazing authors! Check out the Kickstarter for your copy (plus other amazing rewards): www.kickstarter.com/projects/sci...
The cover of Winter of the Sci-fi and Fantasy vol 1 anthology, featuring a cool blue and icy colour theme, including a dark dragon breathing a cool mist in the top corner, and a robot rampaging through a frozen city in the bottom corner.
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙

A prequel to Early Magic
- Modern druids in Wales
- Dark Academic setting
- second-world portal
- Boss Bitch Villain

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
#F #YA #books #druids
Thirty minutes later, on the third floor of the Beynon villa, Gwen examined her aunt’s bedroom. Enormous, lavish, and beautiful, the entire room gleamed in black, charcoal grey, and gold. The bed was absurd; it must have been custom built to be that wide. And covered in satiny gold pillows. Gwen ground her teeth together. What kind of person felt it necessary to own a padded headboard? So…tacky. She could picture Marged lying there like a bloody queen. This should all have been my mother’s.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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ANNOUNCEMENT! We've been working hard behind the scenes this year to revamp our approach to our scholarship program. It's now ready and applications for our 2026 scholarship program are LIVE! forms.gle/Pe2qKyaGMH67...
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
🇨🇿
90s vibes
Slow burn
#WIP #NA #R #HS #WipSnips
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image of girl with head on a bar, holding a drink; text: Mika and John meet up for this ritual at a no-name hole-in-the-wall herna bar because John says hernas are random-uncool and therefore cool. John knows about cool. He used to live in Austin. All herna bars share specific qualities: no windows, black-and-chrome decor, and despair. Tonight, only one of the slot machines is occupied, by a man who looks like he spends way too much time in front of flashing lights and spinning reels. They sit at the bar. John, an old college roommate, came to visit for two weeks - three months ago. It’s by far the biggest compliment he’s ever given her. Mika came to Prague early, practically in the first wave. Prague has suddenly become the coolest city in the world, raising Mika to previously unachieved levels of radness.
November 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Rowan goes snooping.

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she was again starting to lose her patience when at last it squeaked open. Jackpot. The drawer contained hanging files. How very retro. Obviously the coven needed Rowan as a member, if only to bring them into the twenty-first century by buying them a computer. The dust and musty smell coming from the drawer indicated it hadn’t been used in some time. The hanging files weren’t labeled, but the few folders within them were. She pulled out the first: T. Two: Druids. Inside were a few pages of handwritten cursive notes about…druids. Totally bizarre.
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Well, he's in a cult, so...
#WritingPrompt
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 8d
What's the biggest flaw in your main character? #WritingPrompt
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙

A prequel to Early Magic
- Modern druids in Wales
- Dark Academic setting
- second-world portal
- Boss Bitch Villain

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
#F #YA #books #druids
The cafe was just down the road from Parry’s Books, and Dylan scanned the store as they walked by. Mostyn was behind the counter, reading. No sign of Tegan. A memory surfaced: running down the street towards the bookshop ahead of his father, thirsty for a new comic book and chuffed at Madoc’s absence—the chance to spend time with his dad, who understood about his favourite character, Lludd. The simple elation of the memory hit Dylan like a blow now, and he inhaled a jagged breath.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙

A prequel to Early Magic
- Modern druids in Wales
- Dark Academic setting
- second-world portal
- Boss Bitch Villain

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
#F #YA #books #druids
Outside, Marged tinkled with laughter. “You don’t happen to know how to drive, do you?” He shook his head. “No matter!” She unlocked the car and, once the engine was running, put on the radio. She chose a rock station this time, and turned the volume up high, eyes still shining with pleasure. They pulled out of the drive in a splash of flying pebbles. Dylan gripped the side of his seat, horrified that Marged was going to drive in this intoxicated state. Fortunately, she was not in the mood to talk, and sped along the roads smiling to herself or singing. Flinching at every passing vehicle, closing his eyes at every recklessly overtaken car, Dylan counted the miles to Cadfan.
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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#writinglifemonthly November Day 15

I no longer have time for boring, annoying or cliché.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
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📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 15📚

This is easy, bad editing. A novel that hasn't gone through enough of an editing process, I will toss it in a heartbeat.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
November #writinglifemonthly Day 15 Follow up to yesterday - what's guaranteed to make you DNF? Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙

A prequel to Early Magic
- Modern druids in Wales
- Dark Academic setting
- second-world portal
- Boss Bitch Villain

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
#F #YA #books #druids
You're an exceptional student, Mr. Bramwell.” “Thank you.” He managed not to make it sound like a question, but only just. Somehow he’d lost the thread of this conversation and was now blushing, despite himself. She was still standing quite close. “I’ve been following your progress.” She lifted her long hair and moved it to one side of her head, causing another wave of spicy sweetness to bloom around them.“You are the strongest young ovate I’ve seen in years.” “Oh, well—” “There's no point in denying it," she interrupted. "I'm well aware of the skills of my students.” Finally she took a step back, though it was only to look Dylan up and down. “You are different.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙 begins on Nos Galan Gaeaf, aka Samhain. In Dylan's touta, solstices and esbats often mean rituals, not always fun.

#FiFRevPit #RevPitFif #writingcommunity #writersky #writersofbluesky
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Previous Moons: Druids were said to inhabit Wales in ancient times, so it just made sense!
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From horror to fantasy to contemporary, setting is important, and can often become its own character. What inspired the setting for your story? #FiFRevPit #writersky #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit. Prompt: What inspired your setting? #FiFRevPit
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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🌙 Previous Moons 🌙

A prequel to Early Magic
- Modern druids in Wales
- Dark Academia setting
- second-world portal
- Boss Bitch Villain

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
#F #YA #books #druids
Images: teen looking out a window, priestess mid-ritual, dark forest, altar, hooded figure in fog; text: The man was nearly at the altar now, and Marged Beynon was already unsheathing the athame. The old druid reached the altar and pushed back his hood. Dylan was relieved not to recognise him—even more so when the man unclasped his robe and let it fall to the ground. He wore no shirt. The Gwyar water scars were clearly visible on his bare back: long, raised curving lines of blue that shaped his personal connection to the touta. At the base of his spine, the shining, silver-white circular scar of his Nwyfre brand shone in the firelight.  Marged Beynon held up the athame and recited some words, then dipped the blade into the trwyth liquid in the bowl.
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM